Word: pal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartford. Touché, 19, who earned his nickname by his dexterity with a switchblade, has been in trouble since he was eleven; he started fires, snatched pocketbooks, stole cars, burglarized homes, slashed and shot people. When a pal was locked up in Connecticut's Meriden Home for Boys, Touché broke in with a gun and freed him. Touché was placed in a specially built cell in Meriden because he had escaped from the institution 17 times...
...subjects of the article, I was pleased. One thing I would like to correct: I am not associated with Willie Wonka in any way, but am merely "Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal...
...Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since 1974, he pumps gum like Fuller pumped brushes. "We'll do about $6 million this year," he says happily. "About 1.5 billion gumballs." Early...
...consider Henry Kissinger. Understandably, Citizen K's style has changed perceptibly from that of the shuttle diplomat. To be sure, he jets by choice these days to Mexico rather than the Middle East, and has trimmed the embonpoint. Nonetheless, says an old Washington pal, "Henry's still doing the same things-it's just that he's paying for most of them...
...comedian whose style and career are not unlike those of Woody Allen, which is all to the good, since Allen plays him. Annie Hall is tall, blonde and pretty and, at least superficially, not unlike Diane Keaton, who for a few years was Allen's best pal in real life. This, too, is all to the good, since Annie is played by Keaton. It is not for the outsider to determine just how much these fictional figures resemble their real counterparts, but there is no doubt that this is a very personal film...